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First of all: that's Kingsley not Martin, the author of Lucky Jim not Yellow Dog, which may strike some readers as atavistic (and even a little quaint), given how fully Amis the Second has deposed Amis the First in the literary press. Still, Zachary Leader's new biography, The Life of Kingsley Amis, reviewed in these pages last month by Mark Steyn, provides a welcome occasion to look again at the elder Amis's splendid, varied, and enduring contribution to letters. Even a quick review of Amis's work reveals him as a dab hand in several genres--from essays, memoirs, novels, and poems to his raucous correspondence, a hefty volume of which Leader edited in 2000.
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